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Honestly, youth football is the only time a lot of people will get a chance to play the sport. I couldn’t disagree more. It teaches kids a lot of lessons about life. Brett has just gotten soft in his age, and rubbing elbows with people who are manipulating his soft brain.

You can still learn the fundamentals of the game without playing tackle football.

Right now HS teams are playing 7-on-7s against each other. When it comes to basketball, baseball and soccer, it can be played pretty much all year and a few times a week. Football is not played all year around and once a week. There is a reason for that. The more you play football, the more it wears you down and the more likely a player will get a serious injury.

I am not at all saying they should do away with football, I don't want to see that at all, but I do think the game can be played without tackling until 9th grade. Kids can find out if they want to play beyond 8th grade without being exposed to blows to the head, that can have long term damage.

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Posted by teke184

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Posted on 6/24/18 at 11:47 pm to OweO

You can learn offense through non-tackle football though you will still have issues learning to wrap up once you start getting hit.

Defense? You can learn to ball hawk through non-tackle and that’s about it. Non-tackle doesn’t teach you how to take down a Marshawn Lynch type who bowls over everyone in his path.

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Posted by Mike da Tigah

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Posted on 6/25/18 at 8:02 am to OweO

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You can still learn the fundamentals of the game without playing tackle football.

You don’t learn how to tackle, nor do you learn overcoming adversity or teamwork. Little boys need that as they’re becoming men, in much the same as they need to be little boys and not little girls. They need to play rough, get some cuts and bruises, and suck it up. That’s all part of the learning curve as a little boy.

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I am not at all saying they should do away with football, I don't want to see that at all, but I do think the game can be played without tackling until 9th grade

Man, we regularly played tackle football without pads from probably 2nd grade on up. I really don’t see the cause for action here.

What i do see however is a cause for concern as it pertains to how feminine our society has become, and it’s fingerprints are all over this one.

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